Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most heroic gesture of the week was made in regard to taxes. Always one jump ahead of his opponents, President Roosevelt foresaw months ago that Republicans would campaign against him for his heavy deficits. In his January budget message he made his defense, drew an encouraging picture of a 1937 deficit of only half a billion dollars, smallest of the Depression. That picture was possible because he postponed estimating the amounts needed for Relief, took no notice of the Bonus Bill that Congress was about to pass, and did not anticipate the unconstitutionally of AAA processing taxes...
...being unable to take criticism, of exhibiting a vengeful spirit against General Hagood. Bitterest comment along this line came from Cartoonist Jay ("Ding") Darling, who lately retired from the New Deal as the disillusioned Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey. For the New York Herald Tribune syndicate he drew a picture entitled "The New Deal Administration Welcomes Constructive Criticism," and below, "X marks the spot where the last critic tried it." The X was in a shell hole, around which lay a head, a body, a severed hand, two severed legs and, on a shattered tree, a fragment...
Meanwhile in France where the Press normally enjoys a freedom approximating liberty to libel and tempered only by the readiness of its editors to shut up if offered adequate bribes, the Government leaned over backward in solicitude for the feelings of Adolf Hitler. The Sarraut Cabinet drew a storm of French abuse upon itself by ordering gendarmes to raid the offices of Paris' potent Le Journal and seize all copies of its Sunday feature-smash entitled ''Hitler's Secret Loves'" as well as the German research material upon which this was based...
...Church League for Industrial Democracy that scandalized B. & O.'s tall, arrow-straight John Cornwell, 68, who attends Episcopal churches. Said General Counsel Cornwell to a Y. M. C. A. gathering in Baltimore last week: "My hair stood on end when I read those resolutions. I drew the line when I saw they advocated social equality with Negroes in church offices and they wanted to stop those who would penalize overthrow of our government by force. ... If that's going to be the doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, I'm going to do what Al Smith...
Pinned with 310 medals of the Royal Victorian Order were the 300 sailors who drew the gun carriage on which His late Majesty's remains were borne to the grave and their ten officers...